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Clearly this software has gained traction. In over 12 years of using Linux daily and dealing with Solid Modeling, Animation, Compositing, GIMP, Inkscape, etc., I've never heard of it, until they switch Toolkits.

Their original goal was $20,000 and they made $45,028 through Kickstarter. He mentions that some chose to donate directly through PayPal or other mediums, so its actually MORE than $45,028 through this most recent fundraiser.

Radeon and Nouveau don't suffer mostly from lack of funding. They suffer mostly from lack of documentation, (yes even Radeon), lack of time and lack of knowledgable people. Marek I know has been offered enough beers on these forums alone to kill him from alcohol poisoning (I know, cause I was one of them haha). Not saying more funding couldn't hurt, just saying that it funding (aka incentives) dont seem to be their biggest issue.

Clearly this software has gained traction. In over 12 years of using Linux daily and dealing with Solid Modeling, Animation, Compositing, GIMP, Inkscape, etc., I've never heard of it, until they switch Toolkits.

Truly great branding.

Yeah OpenShot doesn't get much publicity. On Gnome you tend to get a lot of "Use Pitivi!" On KDE you get a lot of "Use Kdenlive!" and if you're already familiar with modeling you get a lot of "Use Blender!" That being said, OpenShot tends to have a very loyal (albeit not very vocal) following.

Nice- I'd love to see if they can get some kind of functional GUI working on Ubuntu for tablets. That would be a sweet application, although render times would likely suffer a lot on a mobile device. Either way, it looks like Qt is demonstrating a lot of value recently where GTK's goals seem to be very different. I wonder what effect this will have as we move onto mobile platforms with more intensity, and whether GTK will be ready for that environment as well.